Reading sounds: closed-captioned media and popular culture

Communication Design Quarterly May 2017

Reading sounds: closed-captioned media and popular culture

Phillip J. Deaton

Abstract

The word "access" means to enter into, participate in, and engage with, and captions for sounds are a way to provide access to video content for persons with disabilities. Trying to capture an absolute way for captioning sounds in video media texts is as illusive, impossible, and unethical as trying to establish or declare a single way to write or to read a text. Sean Zdenek's book Reading Sounds investigates the practices that create captions and examines captions as a rhetorical artifact related to the composition of video. This review will examine Reading Sounds from the perspective of a practitioner in the area of web, classroom, and information communication technology accessibility and an academic focused on communication design and disability, indicating points relevant to both practitioners and academics.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2017-05-04
DOI: 10.1145/3090152.3090161
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Topics: multimodality disability studies

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